The Victorian Age

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Goals

You can name at least one political, social or economical issue that occured in the Victorian age

You spoke about photographs from the Victorian age

You formulated interview questions 

What do you know about
the Victorian Age?

The Victorian Age

1837-1901

General information

Enormous increase in wealth

First railway & Reform Parliament

"Time of Troubles" 

Modern industry

Extreme inequity between men and women

Increase in literacy

Victorian literature

Varied in form, style, and content

Vhanging social, political, economic, and cultural climate

Other themes: industrialization, urbanization, technological advances

Social issues in the Victorian age

Issues

poverty, class, gender, philosophy, and religious issues

Use Google to look up some of the political, economical or social issues

Important writers

Charles Darwin

Emily Brönte, 

Charles Dickens

George Elliot

Photographs

4 photographs from the Victorian age

Theme: childhood

3 activities

Activity 1

• Pairs
• 2 photographs each
• 1 minute to discuss your photographs
• What has improved and what has stayed the same?

Activity 2

• Select 1 photograph
• Write down questions that you would like to ask the children in the photographs

Write down questions you would like to ask to one of the children in the photographs

Activity 3

• Find classmates who chose other photographs
• Form groups of 3-4 
• Compare your questions and discuss why you want to ask your questions

What do you know about
the Victorian Age?